Dieter Adelmann MD, PhD

Dieter Adelmann is an anesthesiologist and Associate Professor at the Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco. He is interested in improving the outcomes of patients undergoing abdominal organ transplantation. He is the co-principal investigator of the UCSF Transplant Anesthesia Research Group (TARG) and the Liver Transplant Anesthesia Fellowship director. He completed medical school and a residency in Anesthesia and Intensive Care and obtained a Ph.D. in Clinical Neurosciences at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. After residency, he completed a clinical liver transplant fellowship at UCSF.

Dr. Adelman’s primary focus is perioperative outcomes research in liver and kidney transplant recipients. He co-designed a database integrating electronic medical record data, transplant-specific registry data, and patient outcomes. He is the Principal Investigator for the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia (SATA) multicenter Liver Database. This platform provides the infrastructure and logistics to collect patient-level anesthesia data for multicenter observational research in liver transplantation. His ongoing research projects include studying the association of hypotension and vasopressor use and graft function in kidney transplant patients, how postoperative bleeding complications affect survival after liver transplantation and the safety of early extubation after liver transplantation.